From the Diaspora…DOES THE OPPOSITION WANT TO TAKE GUYANA BACK TO THE SIXTIES?

YES!! Maybe Moses will come to his senes, at least.

After gunning down free citizens protesting imposed poverty and tyranny in 2012 . . . the PPP criminals have settled on "1964" as their first line of defense/offence

It is the scenario being orchestrated.  Remember, the 60's massacres started with an Afro couple being shot by unknown assailants and the assumption/theory was Indians who done it.  Today it was done in full view, but somehow, there was a hidden Indian hand somewhere.  The AFC is the 1960's UF.

Attention, mr Xtra stupid . . . there is nothing "hidden" in assertions of PPP high command culpability in the gunning down of the Linden protesters . . . the names of the suspects are a matter of public record.

and . . . if Rohee (big Dougla) is the "hidden Indian hand," then he hiding in plain sight.

Now, I know that your 'instructions' are to squeeze everything into the prefab box distributed by Freedom House; but really . . . have some pride

Actions are becoming clearer.

Listen banna, you think all Indians naive and stupid like those jumping to your PNC tune.  There are Afros in the PPP but the PPP is viewed as an Indian power structure.  This is why you call the Afros traitors.  In fairness, Indians in the PNC are viewed the same as the PNC is viewed as an Afro power structure.  Fair or not, it is just how it is.

You should listen to your brother Fineman rant just before the massacres, it should shed some light.

Captain obvious . . . no one's arguing [against the fact that] the PPP is viewed as an Indian party, or that the PNC an Afro party . . . take down the lance Don Quixote.

What actually follows from that seems quite beyond the modest abilities of 'thinkers' like you who are fatally obsessed with assigning [Afro-only?] collective guilt for the crimes of these 2 parties.

Oh, I notice that your rancid assumptions about Afro-Guyanese are, ta daa,  backed up by "brother Fineman['s]" rant? . . . Really?!

Suh . . . why Blackman in Linden not blaming the [not insignificant] Indo population in Region 10 for the PPP murders of July 18th?

Long game.  The truth was echoed on the AFC FB page.  The Indian masses not biting.

The writer is just peddling a version of the PPP perpetual theme...watch out for those violent prone black people.  I do not remember the 60's and I am sure 90% of the People there remembers it.

They just know a corrupt PPP government and its habit of rule by edict just  whacked them in the stomach with a 900 percent increase in an essential service. Most pensioners on 10000 G a month would have to give up their pension and more to pay the bill. It is either electricity of starve for many.

The PPP deserve all they get. This could have been solved by careful inclusive deliberation and education. If Lindeners use 3 times the electricity and pay half as much as others then education alone could have brought in savings.

But as usual the PPP knows best so they came with their cudgels to club those hard headed freeloaders into submission and instead discover the club can be wrested from their hands and used to give them a mighty whack as well. 

However this plays out in the future it will not be to the advantage of the kleptocrats in office.

muttering ominous, cryptic nonsense is not an answer to my question!

BTW, since a selection of postings on FB is dispositive re the evil intent of the Afro-Guyanese masses; what are we to make (for instance) of the free-flowing, extreme hate speech aimed @ Blackman by YOU [incl the other handle(s)] and your Indo-fascist cohort on GNI?

Tell me . . . does THAT represent a "long" or "short" game? 

Obviously you do not remember the 60s, which explains your perpetual confusion when discussing these events. There were no "violence prone black people." There was AIFLD with a budget of US $800,000, paying people to be violent. Mr Seeram is somewhat off the mark when he says that "eventually British troops had to come to Guyana" -- that was the intention from the start. That is the standard response from the British to any independence movement - instigate a conflict, typically based on ethnicity or religion, then move in with military force to "restore order."

90% may not remember, neither are 90% of Jews of the holocast, NOT that i'm equating the two.  BTW, Caribj seems to have a vivid memory of the ills of the PPP from 1955-1964.

Perennial excuses.  If it was for free, the current deep discount would have been too much.  What are the average pensions of the rest of Guyana?  Maybe Lindeners should scale back usage to the national average and it will fit.

Did they get whacked, why didn't they PNC/AFC propose a phase-in plan rather than outright rejection and political pandering.

WHAT do they call this technique again?

You're such a simple, stupid little man . . . forever reaching for 'cleverness'

Hey, you never know.  Remember, PPP agents shot the Linden protestors.  My "stupidity" seems to warrant your every attention, even when I'm not responding to you!  You make me feel proud and important over my stupidity.

Burnham was no Hitler so your analogy is spurious.  Similarly, to equate Indians with the suffering of Jews under the third Reich is way off base and not even to be classified as hyperbole. And you did invoke the Jews!

The idea of a comparing GPL prices and BOSAI's prices and calling the difference a subsidy is gross political pandering. It is in fact a savings wrought of efficient productive capacity of the company.

If the PNC or any other offered an alternate plan the PPP would complain   they are the government and should not be told what they should do. Actually, they did say it is their authority to set prices and evaluate needs.

Hey lil crazy tapir, read the text in red, like you hitting the bottle just after Sunday mass.  My reference was to the word "remember".

Stupid man, so you saying GPL runs with a 90% waste factor.  Hey crazy man, you wasting your talents.

"If" they had, BUT they didn't, instead they and their side-kick called for mayhem.  What an alternate plan!!

Yeah, that's your level . . . the NY Lottery cartoon man.

so glad you feel the pride

TAKING GUYANA BACK TO THE 60's?

GUYANA HASN'T REACHED THE 60's YET. IT'S STILL in the 19th CENTURY.

And when ever they settle on 1964 they invent the silly notion that the PNC was bringing explosives to McKenzie when every little kid knows that5 explosive were easily available in that town so there was no need to bring more in. 

They also  forget about the scores of blacks who were killed and injured by Indians all over the coast...others chased out of their vilages.  About the PYO being trained in violence by Fidel Castro and the smuggling into Guyana of weapons which were used by the PYO against PNC and UF supporters.

As they say every coin has two sides as does every story.  In 1961 victorious PPPites marched all along the coast harrassing people they thought were PNC supporters, threatening to put them back in slavery...yes so awful that an embarrassed Jagan had to upbraid them.  That set the stage for the African paranioa which of course Burnham, D'Aguiar and the CIA exploited.

In 1964 the PPP set about to destablize Guyana in an attempt to prevent the elections under PR. 

They only focus on 62/63 which suits its purposes of pretending to be the innocent victims and trying to hide the fact that the USSR/Cuba were actively involved in meddling in Guyana's affairs as was the CIA.

This is where Baseman gets stuck.  He cant even prove that the govt pays BOSAI too much which is why they are able to profit from generating electricty while still selling it cheaply to Lindenites.  I have asked hiom if this is the case and he seem unable to respond.

This really makes a lot of SENSE. Thank you.

We are stuck on two different principles.  One has to prevail before progress is made.  Frankly, I believe mine would and yours will not.  The GoG should be the sole seller of such strategic products as such all electricity should be sold to the Govt who re-sells to the market.  This does not include power generated from one's own use.

Mind you Ramotar promised lower rates before the elections.

Yes, normalizing Linden's rates could result in a overall reduction for everyone that "drain" will have been plugged.  Imagine, 4% of the population consuming for 14% and having 80% discount.  This translate to approx 10% burden an the rest.

Knucklehead, the point being made is that the present matters. With NIS, NICIL. excessive pay scales and double and triple dipping by the present PPP crooks no one has the time to reminisce on the 60's. The Present generation including myself do not have a direct connection to it. That is history. We have a direct connection to these crooks and if it was bad then why should there be a repeat experience with these crooks? I will not preoccupy myself with excuses of it being bad then to tolerate or accept these crooks. You can but that is expected of you.

I do not know what calling me a tapir do for you but go right on ahead if it makes your day. I am an atheist and a non drinker so you can take that and shove it also.

It is quite stupid to make an analogy and then in the second sentence say it is irrelevant. You are quite the idiot to think you can have your cake and eat it. Either you meant for the comparison to be evoked or you would not have made the reference.

My talents are aptly entertained. You do not worry yourself about that.

The PNC or any opposition in parliament never for the past 20 years had any of their motions considered much-less heard. Further, the opposition did caution the PPP as to their heavy handedness and advised them that a unilateral imposition of an increase will be met with resistance.

It is the right of the people to resist tyranny. It is time the PPP understand they work for the people and are accountable to them.

In similar manner, why do you always make unrelated and rediculous statements about people?

At times he is entertaining, as a clown in te circus.

What is worth noting are the sprinkling of Indians seen among the demonstators.  Why if Indians are being targeted?

You know what is sad about this.  The PPP is upping the ante by their normal childish reaction to crises which they create.  Their police force shot and killed 4 people and injured many others.  Rather than engaging in damage control they add fat to the fire by spreading all sorts of damning lies aimed at increasing racial tensions...playing as usual oin the "savage black man" bogey.  Surely by now Ramotar would have climbed down out of his Ivory Tower and gone to LInden to host a town hall meeting to demonstrate, if nothing else, that he is aware of their frustrations, upset about teh unwarranted deaths, but that some constructive discussion towardsa compromise has to be worked out.

Also why isnt the PPP not telling Guyana of the truth.  GPL does NOT supply Linden so there ought to be no connection between the charges paid by those who receive their electricity from GPL, and Lindeners who dont.  They also ned to come clean.  Are they paying BOSAI to generate electricty or not, and if so, why are they paying BOSAI more than it needs to cover its costs?

And I am not going to let the APNU nor the AFC off the hook either.  Are they trying to control the situation by mobilizing the protesters topwards CONSTRUCTIVE protest?  Or are they joyful that the situation is spiralling out of control with renegade, and potentially criminal elements, taking advantage of an increasingly chaotic situation.

Did Cathy Hughes go to Linden to help, or is she there to generate more hysteria among Lindeners to advance the agenda of the AFC to snatch votes from APNU. 

And where is APNU in all of this?  This is their constituency?  WShat recommendatiosn do they have?  Is Linden being sacrificed on the ambitions of Grainger/Corbin to maintain control of the PNC?

As usual in Guyana there are no clean hands among the key political players.

What principle.  IF BOSAI generates electricity more cheaply and makes profist from doing so, and receives no payment from the govt, then why are you demanding that Lindeners pay more for electricity?  Just because GPL, losing 40% of the pwoer that they generate through leakages, must recoup its inefficiency, and possible corruption with reports that certain powerful PPP supporters dont pay their bills?

What sense does this make?  And what kind of communist are you to demand that only govt must sell electricity. 

Why dont you demand that they properly service the sectors over which they have control before assigning them more. Education, healthcare, maintenance of infrastructure (DEMERARA BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN!), and the provision of water and electricity by state owned corps?

Well said carib.